Matsuyama, Japan
Port · JPMYJ · 33.82°, 132.70° · Mineral Products, Machinery & Electrical Equipment, Chemical & Allied Industries
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 3
- vessel calls / yr
- 2,274
About the port
The World Port Index lists Matsuyama as a small coastal breakwater harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 9 m in the channel, 14 m at the anchorage, 13 m at the cargo pier and 11 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 3 m.
Entry can be restricted by tide, swell and other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited.
Matsuyama is a first port of entry.
PortWatch estimates 2,137 port calls at Matsuyama from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 178 a month, 8% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, tankers 73%, dry bulk carriers 10% and container ships 9% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.8 million t imported and 528 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was May 2026 (196 calls) and the quietest Jan 2026 (142).
What is reported near this port
3 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Matsuyama, the earliest issued in 2001; the most common types are quakes (3).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Matsuyama is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 184 calls, 188 thousand t in, 38 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- small coastal breakwater
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 9 m · anchorage 14 m · cargo pier 13 m · oil terminal 11 m
- mean rise of tide
- 3 m
- entrance restricted by
- other, swell, tide; not ice
- turning area
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- not fixed, floating, mobile
- services
- dirty ballast reception, longshore labour, medical; not electrical repair, navigation equipment repair
- supplies
- fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- marine railway
- small
- first port of entry
- yes
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97293
World Port Index entry Matsuyama (No. 62030), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.3%, exports 0.2%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.